Quotes with crime

  • Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of genocide by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
  • Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
  • Many commit the same crime with a different destiny; one bears a cross as the price of his villainy, another wears a crown.
  • The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.
  • After me there are no more jazz singers... It's a crime that no little singer is back there sockin' it to me in my field. To keep it going, to keep it alive, because I'm not going to live forever.
  • All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.
  • Inventing sources is not a crime in and of itself, although it certainly violates every code of journalistic ethics known to man. A criminal fraud case would require that the reporter's deceit had been malicious and resulted in financial gain.
  • Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
  • There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
  • A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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  • Barry J. Farber Crime expands according to our willingness to put up with it.
    Barry J. Farber
    American entrepreneur, sales consultant and author
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  • Mark Twain A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Salman Rushdie An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Crime generally punishes itself.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Joseph De Maistre False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Madame Dorothé Deluzy One crime is everything, two is nothing.
    Madame Dorothé Deluzy
    French actress
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  • Tacitus A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • John Huston After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.
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  • Betty Carter After me there are no more jazz singers... It's a crime that no little singer is back there sockin' it to me in my field. To keep it going, to keep it alive, because I'm not going to live forever.
    Betty Carter
    American jazz singer (1929 - 1998)
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  • Carl Hiaasen All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Evelyn Waugh Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
    Evelyn Waugh
    British novelist (1903 - 1966)
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  • Boris Pasternak Am I a gangster or a murderer?
    Of what crime do I stand
    Condemned? I made the whole world weep
    At the beauty of my land.
    Selected Poems (1983)
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Malcolm X America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Bret Easton Ellis Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as you are one of the participants? That was something that I was thinking about a lot because there are many moments in 'Less Than Zero' where horrific things happen and Clay could do something about them, but his passivity stops him.
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Honoré de Balzac Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • Ian Mcewan By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State's crime when it sets out to crush that individuality.
    Ian Mcewan
    English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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  • Woody Allen Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Bob Barr Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • H.G. Wells Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
    H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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